They could give the papers away for free I’d still never buy them.
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I am not spruiking, I think it’s an unfair deal, a gimmick to increase News Corp’s paper sales. It should be The Age and AFR which get the discounts.
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Well, you should have said. It was impossible to figure that out from your post. It looked like you were promoting them.
I’d say NewsCorp cut an attractive deal with Coles to do that. It’s not like Coles is just doing them a favour.
Veteran journalist Ron Reed will retire next Thursday, June 30. Reed worked in newspapers for 52 years, the last 45 years at The Sun News-Pictorial and the Herald Sun, reporting and commenting on so many sporting events at home and abroad, winning numerous awards along the way. He is one of finest sporting journalists in this country. I wish him a happy retirement.
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Mamamia’s national strategy director Georgia Thomas has exited the company after less than a year, joining The Australian as the new head of strategy and partnerships. Lisa Wells, who has been Bauer Media’s head of direct sales for the past two years, has been appointed as the paper’s deputy general manager of sales.
News Corp, a minor shareholder of employment website Careerone, has signed a commercial agreement with long-time rival Seek. From early August, News Corp’s sales teams will offer its customers a Seek Group employment listing with every print ad they book, and News Corp’s digital properties will link to a Seek Group job site.
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You have to wonder how the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Advertiser etc. are preparing themselves for a post-Rupert world. I can’t see his children as wanting to be involved to nearly the same extent.
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News Corp launches new Sunday magazine Stellar in August, replacing Sunday Style
It will be the first time The Sunday Mail in Queensland gets the same magazine as its sister papers in NSW and Victoria.
My first question is why? Sunday Style has been a highly successful newspaper insert magazine, it has better content than Sunday Life (magazine in The Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald) and was one of the reasons The Sunday Telegraph opened up such a huge lead over The Sun-Herald in print sales and readership. Is News Corp changing its focus from fashion and celebrity to lifestyle and food?
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What a shit title. Seems like a really odd decision. I think Style is a much better title…by far.
News Corp is making more changes to its weekend magazines. It has decided to close Home magazine (which came with the Herald Sun every Saturday and focused on new houses and estates) after 22 years and merge it into a new Real Estate magazine, which comes out tomorrow. Two weeks ago The Daily Telegraph’s Kidspot liftout was merged with Best Weekend magazine. Is the company trying to save money?
Obviously. Haven’t you heard of the perilous future of newspapers? Some are predicting that there will no longer be printed editions in five years.
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The Daily and Sunday Telegraph sports journalist Phil Rothfield has admitted to receiving money via his TAB account from colourful Sydney gambler, racing and brothel identity Eddie Hayson, and to supplying Hayson with NRL game tickets. Rothfield has stated that Hayson and him have been friends and punting mates for many years and that he has used Hayson as a source for stories many times. However, Rothfield’s financial dealings with Hayson appear to be at odds with the News Corp code of ethics, though Rothfield said he had felt no need to disclose the dealings to News Corp. The SMH wrote that News Corp is conducting a full inquiry into the matter.
Looking forward to (NOT) each day’s coverage of Jarryd Hayne in News Corp papers - a new twist on their obsession; will the Daily Terrorgraph treat him as a defector?
They already have. He’s branded a “Gold Digger” on the front page of the Daily Telegraph today and the online byline is “Cash of the Titans”.
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I know this sort of coverage is to be expected from the top selling paper in the NRL-mad city that is Sydney but oh man, I wish that The Daily Telegraph (and the Sydney media generally I might add) would stop going on about Jarryd Hayne!
Just imagine 9 and 7 Gold Coast news bulletins.
According to The Australian, News Corp will upgrade 32 of its community newspapers to glossy magazine format. It will include a new lifestyle section featuring stories on health, wellbeing, food, home, entertainment and travel as well as exclusive content under syndication from parenting website Kidspot.
The article mentions its division Leader Community News which publishes more than 100 community titles across the country. I thought Leader was only responsible for titles around Melbourne?
My local newspaper in Sydney is called the Leader and it is a Fairfax Community paper.
If I’m not mistaken, the News Corp-owned community newspapers go under the Leader Community News umbrella in Melbourne, the NewsLocal umbrella in Sydney and the Quest Community Newspapers umbrella in Brisbane. Something like that anyway.
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News Corp will sell its majority stake in CarsGuide following the company’s merger agreement with US-based Cox Automotive, which runs auction house Manheim in Australia. According to GoAuto, News Corp’s share of CarsGuide, which was originally 50% but is now 55%, will be bought out by CarsGuide’s 38 dealer shareholders. News Corp will then exit the auto classified company. A newly-formed company, Cox Automotive Australia, will then merge with CarsGuide, with CarsGuide becoming a division of Cox Automotive Australia. The arrangement, which is subject to approval of regulators, is expected to be finalised by the end of this year.